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The shaking started deep within rabbed me "Come on, we’re in deep shit here"

We ran out of the healers’ rooie was the reason ere in deep shit

The ar us to the Pit was broken in two Our way hole blow from one of the clubs

I had to trust Ash that he knehere ere going, that he would find us a way back to the forest The hallways blurred as we ran, they all looked the same to me Ash stopped at a door, cracked it open and peered in Apparently, it was good and I breathed a sigh of relief I followed him in

The room was set up as a library, the walls covered in books, and a large table set in the middle But the books were not really books, just paint on the wall This was one of the dummy rooms, which at least was better than a hole all the way into the Pit

Ash paced the roo, and the silence stretching until I wished he would just say what he had to say "What in the goddess’s na? We don’t kill other Enders, Larkspur!"

I pushed off the door "We don’t know they’re dead And they were going to kill er and fear blending together into a headyto do, the sa to pull on the lava in the Pit just as I swept her legs"

Ash blinked several tiain"

"They were planning to kill ie, there was fire in her eyes, the same way I sahen I trained with her, except I could see what she was going to do with it She was going to have the lava spill up and s us There would be nothing left of us to find" I rubbed a hand overto happen, what they were going to do I’h that I dared to look up His face was thoughtful, the anger gone And then he truly surprisedwas different the ie and Match faced us, the aggressiveness they were showing That isn’t like the this up?"

I wondered thatht be a tool, but Cassava would be the only one to ht Granite was the only one who kneere co?"

"Cassava knows more than she should" Ash closed his eyes "She’s always there, always seeing what she shouldn’t As if she can see through h h If the Enders I’d fought actually died, I would be on the hook for their lives "You believingwhat they were going to do Which ht behind the outside our door interrupted us, and brought us both around, reaching for our weapons Tension rose and o was a terrible thing The running footsteps faded and I let out a slow breath Ash still wore the black Ender cloak Cactus had given him I’d left mine behind in the healers’ rooh to hide us both, and if the Salale one of their own There was no e could get by them And then there was the an to forood, but it was all I could co room, like us?" I tapped one foot on the floor

Ash’s eyes shot to htly "Yes, but it will be deep within the Ender barracks just like ours Highly protected"

"Do you knohere the barracks are?"

He nodded, eyes glittering with a spark of life "Yes, I do"

"Then what choice do we have? We have to get to the Traveling roohtenedat et out of this alive, I’et out of this alive, I’ll take you h escaped rin and opened the door "Why the hell not?"

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Chapter 18

Ash knehere ere going The Salauard the Pit Which was all well and good The layout of the Pit with the endless hallways, doors, and stairwells worked in our favor, as well as against us

For the third time, we jammed ourselves into the dark recesses of a hallway as two Enders swept by, their eyes glowing, flickering with a barely contained fury Their footsteps eased and we started on our way again

"They’re going to kill us both, if they catch us" I kept o on forever At the top, the landing curled to the right and cliet the hell out of here" Ash peered around the corner before beckoning , lack of food, and general heartsickness leftin a haze, after the initial burst of adrenaline The world around us blurred and blended into a never-ending game of cat and ing to my spear for all I orth I wanted to put it away, but I knew that was a foolish thought